According to White House officials, Donald Trump is planning to nominate Heather Nauert, the US State Department Spokeswoman, as the new US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN).
Japan is set to ban government equipment purchases from China's ZTE and Huawei Technologies to beef up the defences against cyber attacks and intelligence leaks.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced plans to construct Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs in the company's Detroit plant by 2020, four sources familiar with the matter stated.
The Japanese household spending fell in October, while real wages dropped for a third month in succession, adding to concerns over the strength of the country's economy.
Mexico's automobile exports and output fell slightly in the months of November compared with the same period last year.
On Thursday, the US Senate backed the US President Donald Trump's nominee Kathleen Laura Kraninger to chair the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
According to sources familiar with the matter, a Brazilian federal court ruled to disallow Embraer's board to sign a deal with Boeing, which resulted in 2.4% shares drop of the South American plane maker.
On Thursday, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau categorically denied that his government was somehow involved in arrest of the Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
According to data released by the US Energy Department, the volume of exported crude oil last week for the first time exceeded the volume of imported commodity, thus making the country a net oil exporter.
William Barr, the former US Attorney General, who served under the ex-President George H.W. Bush, might return to his job soon, being the leading nominee to replace Jess Sessions.
On Thursday, Singapore's authorities stated they were set to block the shares re-listing of Noble Group, putting the company's $3.5B worth debt rescue plan at risk.
The European Union is set to make an offer to the Swiss stock exchanges to give it two more years of rights to lead operations in the EU bloc, if the country's government grants an approval to the overall deal regarding their future relations.
On Thursday, the US supermarket chain Kroger has reported its quarterly same-store sales plunged short of estimates, beat by disruptions caused by stores' revamping and sending the company's shared down nearly 3%.
Israeli medical cannabis firm InterCure is preparing for a listing on Nasdaq in the middle of the next year, according to the company's major shareholder Alex Rabinovitch.
On Thursday, the Indian indebted carrier Jet Airways has promised to its pilot union that it would clear all salary backlogs by April 2019, providing them with a schedule showing the payout dates.
The US company Lumentum Holdings has received China's antitrust approval for a takeover of Oclaro that had been valued at $1.7B.
The buyout firm Siris Capital Group and the hedge fund Elliott Management consortium is close to clinch a takeover deal of Travelport Worldwide, the travel software company, sources reported on Thursday.
On Thursday, the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated the country would impose taxes on the digital titans, such as Google and Facebook, starting from the next year, if the EU-wide tax agreement could not be reached.
Bosch, the German car supplier, stated on Thursday it was seeing a sluggish growth in the global car production next year due to a China's cool-down and falling demand for diesel vehicles in Europe.
On Thursday, Mallinckrodt announced about its plans to spin off the specialty generics arm to its shareholders until the next year's second half, ending the search for an appropriate strategic option for the firm.
A Chairman of Honk Kong's Hopewall Holdings made a proposal to take the group private in a potential deal worth $2.7B, sending its shares up as much as 32% on Thursday.
On Thursday, the financial news outlet TheStreet announced it would sell some of the firm's B2B business units, BoardEx and The Deal, to the British company Euromoney Institutional Investor in a deal worth $87.3M.
The PE firm KKR has led a $100M investment into Cross River Bank, the community bank that owns several famous fintech start-ups in the US, both companies announced on Thursday.
The Finnish firm Amer Sports is nearing a deal worth $5.2B to be acquired by the Chinese Anta Sport-led consortium, which would take 58% of the company.